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Bill Gross Warns "Central Bankers Are Destroying The Engine Of The Real Economy"Aug 18, 2016 - 14:14:29 PDT
by pursuing a policy of more QE and lower and lower yields, they may find that the global economic engine will sputter instead of speed up
The banking sector isn't the scariest part of the financial system anymoreAug 18, 2016 - 13:59:29 PDT
Regulators are sounding the alarm on derivatives.
US Corporate Debt Has Doubled To $6 Trillion Since The Crisis: This Is Who Bought ItAug 18, 2016 - 13:54:51 PDT
As for the more important question, namely "who bought all this debt", the answer is surprising: mostly domestic retail and foreign investors.
Inflation-adjusted household income (blue line) in the US has gone nowhere in the last 16 years. Notice also that it kept dropping even after we came out of the last recession (gray shaded area).
In 2008, the Financial System sat on the brink. In his latest interview, Jim Willie warns you haven't seen anything yet- Bank Runs at Coming to America...
What Janet Yellen Will Say At Next Week's Jackson Hole Meeting: BofA's PreviewAug 18, 2016 - 13:02:00 PDT
In other words, central bankers should want to prolong this business cycle, with hopes that R* can head higher.
The Fed Is Searching for a New Framework. New Minutes Show It Doesn’t Have One YetAug 18, 2016 - 12:49:03 PDT
the global economy seems to be locked in a low-growth, low-inflation world in which raising interest rates is at best unnecessary and at worst dangerous
Not surprisingly, we see a Fed just as confused as ever as to what monetary policy actions should be taken.
Aug 18, 2016 - 12:31:46 PDT
The Fed's low interest rates are killing savers, costing them more than $470 billion in interest income. And things are about to get even worse. Here's how...
As Basel III changes to bank capital levels are being announced and implemented there’s been a surge in articles on bank capital levels. How much capital is required, what type of capital is required and how minimum capital levels should be measured and set are all hot topics.
Even as the S&P 500 was setting a string of records through July, nearly as many dollars were leaving stock funds as entering
A closer look at these numbers shows that the economic recovery was never viable, says financial advisor Michael Pento.
Paul Singer warns that the bond market is "broken" and that inflation could be uncontrollableAug 18, 2016 - 11:34:06 PDT
Market 'breakdown' to be 'sudden, intense, and large'
Faber takes a dim view of central bank activities that have led to a substantial increase in the size of their balance sheets. Although central banks can continue these policies indefinitely, he noted that eventually they will own everything
Caterpillar Retail Orders Suffer Second Biggest Plunge Since Financial CrisisAug 18, 2016 - 11:20:55 PDT
now posting 44 consecutive declines, the latest, July data was downright depressionary.
Aug 18, 2016 - 11:09:56 PDT
The chart shows the steady erosion of Capacity Utilization in the U.S. since Congress surrendered its job to the deeply conflicted Fed. The chart comes courtesy of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, which defines Total Industry Capacity Utilization this way:
if there were some secret minutes detailing the Fed’s inner conscience that were leaked to the public, here’s what they would really be saying:
The Federal Reserve expanded its communications strategy Thursday by launching a Facebook page, but there were no fresh hints on the direction of interest rates.
Greenspan voiced concern that the U.S. economy was headed toward a period of stagflation - stagnant growth coupled with elevated inflation.
Ellen Zentner, chief U.S. economist at Morgan Stanley, discusses the FOMC minutes, the big picture of what the Federal Reserve is attempting to do, and what to expect from Fed Chair Janet Yellen's speech at Jackson Hole. She speaks on "Bloomberg ‹GO›." (Source: Bloomberg)